Chelsea Powell​Chelsea is a graduate student in the Chemical Biology Program at Harvard University. After growing up in New York City, she attended Stanford University where she received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering with Honors. For her honors thesis research Chelsea worked in Dr. Matthew Bogyo’s lab, studying matrix metalloproteases using activity-based probes. In the Gray lab she is pursuing her interests in drug development and the use of chemical probes to study disease mechanisms, with a focus on developing novel cancer therapeutics.